Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-10-21
ABOUT HATS.
How Character Is Portrayed by the
Different styles.

How Character Is Portrayed by the
/ Different styles.
Did you ever observe, asks The 50.
raul Globe, that mans disposition
can be read by the style Of hat he
wears and the way he wears it? Not
so with woman. There is more di-
versity of style in womens hats than
mems. But woman always wears her
hair fixed up. So that woman's hat
can be no index to female character
1t is different with men. There is
close intimacy between the STYLES Of
mems headgcar and the science OF
phrenologY. The hat is the bump
which infallibly denotes the most
prominent trait Of character. When a
man buys n hat he is governed in the
select on by the peculiar organism Of
the brain. 1t doesn't make any differ
ence whether the particular hat he Sc
lects is becoming to him or not, he pre-
fers it because he is built that way. If
he wears an unbecomng hat he is not
respons bic for it. A man never looks
in a m rror when he tries hat on. A
woman always does.
The tall silk hat denotes financial
ability. Bankers. hotel clerks, and
police reporters always wear silk hats.
Rich men do not always wear silk hats,
nor are men who wear silk hats always
ha ell -.
sign OF capacity for handling finances
successfully. 1t isn't ever; man who
possesses financial ability that gets rich.
nor is it every man who gets rich that
possesses skill n iinancerlng. Not by
jug full. We state this that the
publ c mind may not get confused on
these points.
Tho derby hat denotes energy. A
man who wears derby always has
the appearance Of being on the 90. 1t
is ready r-al-occasion hat. II is at
home whether at church or on tho
baseball grounds. The derby is mob
by little cross between the silk and the
SLOUGH. 1t is an accommodation hat
The Clergyman looks well in il. and i,
the time it has a pushing go-ahcadi
uveness in IS appearance that makes
everything sde-switch when the derby
passes by.
And then there is the slouch hat
Ah there is the hat OF liberty for you
The slouch hat is the original old COM
moner II is the hat for the masses
democratic in style and repu blican in
its simplicity. There i, nothing that
symbolizes pure unadul!erated Amer
canism so we'll as the slouch hat. Tho
SLOUGH hat denotes ocjability. 1t is
the unfailing index of gen al tempera-
ment 1t means that the wearer is
good fellow that will do to tie TO. He
MAJ be a bank president or he may be
"A cowboy, still you can rely on his
being hale companion wherever you
meet him, possessing sturdy independ /
ence OF character, and always ready
to extend helping hand wherever it
is needed.
The man who wears his hat perprn-
dicularly. whether it is lie. DERBY
or SLOUGH. has the bump OF self-es.
TEEN we'll developed. He thinks that
he is the upper crust Of the pie and is
ent tiled TO recognition. The man who |.
wears his hat down over the forehead !
is thoughtful man. Ho is studious
and communes with himself a great |
deal, and sometimes inclined to morose-
ness.
But the man who wears lis hat on
the back of his head is the one who
doesn't care whether school keeps or
not. He is independent and selt-reli-
ant. and one day is with him as anoth-
err. He takes note Of neither time nor
indiv duals. He is usually popular
because he is always generous. Sailors
and soldiers and jockeys and baseball
players are not included in tbs CLASH
lication because they always wear caps.